Brandon Sanderson

Daily quotes from @BrandSanderson, the master of modern fantasy! (not affiliated)

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That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere. Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.

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People are valuable, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.

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If I didn't care so much, then being betrayed wouldn't feel so painful.

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Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right. It means that there will always be a way.

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If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.

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Too much of anything is deadly.

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When we create something, we often destroy something else in the process.

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Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

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Being a king isn't always about doing what you want. It's about doing what needs to be done.

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There is a beauty in death—the beauty of finality, the beauty of completion.

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The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

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It was much easier for Ruin to get a hold on people who were passionate and impulsive than it was for him to hold on to people who were logical and prone to working through their actions in their minds.

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Though most expect young men to be fools, I've noticed that a little bit of age can make a man far more foolish than he was as a child.

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Being in charge isn't about doing anything—it's about making certain that other people do what they're supposed to!

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If nothing changed, nothing would ever come to exist.

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New tastes are like new ideas—the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.

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All societies have people who break the rules. Particularly when power is concerned.

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The title of emperor carried with it only a single duty: to make everything better.

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To preserve something is not to create it—and neither can you create through destruction alone.

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The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing.